an anecdote           
                                          
 today it rained,  and i would go outside 
 i thought, so i  smoked a pipe  and  got 
 dressed,  and   outside  the   rain  had 
 turned  into  snow so  thick that it was 
 as dense fog ... and then i went to  get 
 the mail,  but  there was a woman and we 
 talked a little. now because i was  high 
 and  it was snowing  so funny and  i had 
 an  umbrella  against the snow, but snow 
 all over my  face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life